Railway-tie



(No Model.)

G. A. JONES. RAILWAY TIE.

Patented Sept. 13, 1881.

Inv/e rufo r1.

Ntra STAT-ns PATENT OFFICE.'

GEORGE ARTHUR JONES,OF FARHINGTON, NEW' HAMPSHIRE.

RAI LWAY-TI E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,888, dated September 13, 1881.

Application led J une 13, 1881. (No model.)

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be itknown thatI, GEORGE ARTHUR JoNns, of Farming-ton, of the county ot' Stratford and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Railway-Ties; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, ot' which- Figure l is a top View, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of a railway-tie provided with my invention. Fig. 4 is a transverse section ot' it taken through one of the rail-seats, and showing the recesses for reception oi' the removable flange-block, to he described. 5, (i, 7, and 8 are views ot1 said block and are hereinafter described.

The tie having my invention is to be ot' wrought-iron or steel, or ot' cast-iron, in one piece thereof, it, practically speaking, being a tie and two chairs arranged and combined in one piece of metal.

The nature of my invention is fully defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

In the drawings, A denotes the tie, having near each end ot ita dat seat, a, the two sea-ts (t a being connected by vertical or parallel flanges b b, which terminate at and extend above the two seats and project above the base portion c of-the tie, in manner as represented. These ilanges, where next each of the seats, are recessed, as shown at d e, to receive a movable block, B, provided with a flange,f, to project over the inner iiange,g, ot' a rail, C, when extended across the seat. Furthermore, the tie has two Harige-overlaps, It, projecting up from it, and directly over and upon the outer flanges of the rail. Each movable ange-block B, formed as shown in top view in Fig. 5, in front elevation in Fig. 6, in

end view in Fig. 7, and rear elevation in Fig. 8, extends across the tie and into the recesses d e, made therein ior its reception. The recesses and block, formed as represented, admit ot' the block, on removal of its fastenin g-screw,

and under each ange-overlap and each movable block B, a quadrilateral prism, D, of wood or other suitable yielding material, to constitute what I term a ligneous cushion77 or yielding bearing for the rail to rest on, such cushion crossing the seat and rising somewhat above the same. This cushion isheld in place or from slipping back in the recess u by a spike, F, going down through an aperture, 8, in the block B, and into or through the cushion, and into or through a hole, m, in the base ot' the tie, if necessary.

Each block B is confined within its receiving-recesses el e by a screw-bolt, n, going through it and one ofthe flanges b, and by a nut, o, screwed on such bolt. In the lower part of each block B, andto open through its rear side and bottom, is a notch, p, to receive a pryf when used to force up the block, in order to draw the spike out of the cushion or piece of wood D. The said pieces of wood constitute yielding supports for the rails, and thereby prevent the injurious results which would i'ollow were the rails to rest directly upon the seats a c.

The rail-tie, construct-ed, as described, of metal and provided with the removable flan ge-blocks and the wooden prisms or cushions held in place in it by means as described, is intended to take the place of a common wooden tie, and two separate metallic chairs bolted upon such tie. lPossessing the durability of a stone tie, the metallic tie, with its wooden cushions, as described, is free from the objections incident t0 astone tie, as it becomes an easier or yielding support l'or the rails, and is stronger and less liable to become broken, and in case of breakage the material composing it can be recast to form another such tie.

What I claim as my invention is as follows,

viz:

1. Each movable ange-block B, provided with the pry-receiving notch p, arranged in it as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The metallic railtie having the base c, two flanges, b, seats a, lange-overlaps h, and the j .c a, for reception of the cushions, and the YMv tble flange-blocks, all being substantially as set forth.

3. The movable ange-block B, provided with the aperture s, to receive the spike, and

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also with the augef, to project over the railcushions and flange-blocks, all being substanilauge, as explained. tially as set forth.

4. The metallic rail-tie provided with the 1 stationary ange-overlapsh,removableange GEORGE ARTHUR JONIJS' 5 blocks B, and the cushions or wooden prisms Vitnesses:

D, arranged as described, and also with the SAMUEL S. AMAZEEN, cushion-fastening spikes F, disposed in suoli CHARLES B. JONES. 

